European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 25, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13 Ellen Goodman generational commentary Cross fire strafe Hillary Clinton draft  Noe m  faded Flowers stand by your front runner Eart must in in cause Tson Gas so this candidates wife is being assessed All Over again As if she were a piece of property. Her value seems to go up and Down with every Rumor in the marketplace taking her husbands business along for the ride. Just last month Hillary Clinton was Bill a greatest asset. She was the one who stripped the Poison petals off Gennifer Flowers Story. This was no wronged wife Long suffering abuse. She was the latest Model in political wives an Independent lawyer and political partner. Now she a being talked about As a deficit. With Paul Tsongas gone and the nomination at hand what democratic troubles May Lurk in her Legal files could her personal strengths be his political weaknesses what woman a role will she be modelling this year anyway and what do we think of it last week Hillary a Stock Slid Down the politically Correct graph lines. She landed in the Middle of the great american Mommy wars. When asked about the relationship Between his state business and her Law firm she said in frustration a i suppose i could have stayed Home baked cookies and had teas but what i decided to do was fulfil my profession ouch the sound bite went further afield than her careful second thought a you know the work that in be done As a professional As a Public advocate has been aimed in part to assure that women can make the Choice that they should make a whether its full time career full time motherhood some combination but she was right to add a i think that it is still difficult for people to understand right now that it is a generational  indeed the signs of generational change Are All Over this election. George Bush came of age with the unifying a Good War a world War ii. Bill Clinton came of age with the divisive bad War Vietnam. Barbara Bush left Smith College and married George when there was one right Choice for women. Hillary Clinton finished Law school and married Bill when there was no single right Choice. Perhaps no right Choice. Today a first lady was in essence a grandmother eds into her role. But the decisions any younger woman makes Are instantly controversial. Think of Hillary Clinton a own revolving appearances in the political profit and loss ledgers. When she held onto her own name in 1980, she was blamed for her husbands defeat. When she gave it up she was criticized for self defeat. When she stuck up for her husband and marriage on 60 minutes she had to prove that she was no Tammy Wynette. When she proved it the Tammy Wynotte fans wanted to know what a wrong with standing by your Man. At Campaign rallies when she Speaks with a Strong political voice someone invariably asks a Why done to you  if she were As quiet As Shelley Buchanan someone would undoubtedly ask if her husband was an impossible chauvinist. The expectations for husbands Are not much easier nor is their balancing act. At one moment Bill Clinton deals with his wife As a partner Able to stand on her own two feet. The next minute he a angrily even chivalrous by defending her from Jerry Browne a accusing Finger. / at this moment i am told there arc a dozen or More reporters in Arkansas searching for improprieties in the working relationship of a lawyer wife and a governor husband. We May yet give Hillary Clinton the treatment accorded to both Geraldine Ferraro a feminism and John Zaccaro a finances. Its not a comfortable thought. As asset and debit As lawyer and wife Hillary Clinton is Likely to set a Standard this year for the new generation of political couples. Sometimes i am sure like every other woman wife Mother of her generation who Ever stops balancing and juggling expectations for a minute she must wonder How on Earth do you Ever get it right c the Boston Globo Harry g. Summers  Pax americana would be real bargain like the Phoenix Pax americana a the idea of a new world dominated by the United states a has risen from its grave. Reduced to ashes Only a few years ago when critics pronounced that the notion of an a american Century was hopelessly out of touch with the emerging Multi Polar world Pax americana sprang Back to life in the aftermath of the persian Gulf War and the dissolution of the soviet Union. President Bush hinted at its rebirth in his state of the Union address last year. When it comes to the a Long held Promise of a new world order where brutality will go unrewarded and aggression will meet collective resistance the United states bears a major share of leadership a he said. A among the nations of the world Only the United states of America has both the moral standing and the Means to Back it up. We Are the Only nation on this Earth that could assemble the forces of  putting flesh on those words is the 1992 defense planning guidance a 46-Page policy statement from the Secretary of defense that gives the army Navy air Force and Marine corps detailed instructions on their anticipated missions for the remainder of this decade. A biannual requirement this exceptionally important document the first such guidance since the end of the cold War provides the basis for Force planning structuring and training for the acquisition of new arms and equipment and for future technological research and development. Now in draft form this classified memorandum like its related Pentagon Force planning scenarios was leaked to the new York times by a an official who believes this Post cold War strategy debate should be carried out in the Public  although there were almost certainly less pure motives involved the leaker was right for this Post cold War strategy Marks a major change in american defense and foreign policy. It recognizes that for the first time since the roman Empire More than two millenniums ago there is one pre eminent world military Power a the United states of America. This classified document makes the Case for a world dominated by one superpower a the new York times said a whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behaviour and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging american  the strategy it said was a the clearest rejection to Date of collective  it could better be described As a belated realization of what that a a internationalism really entailed. In the korean War Peak Allied ground Force strength was 39,145, compared with 302,483 from the United states and 590,911 from the Republic of Korea. In the Vietnam War a free world military forces peaked at some 68,889 soldiers compared with 543,400 americans and More than 1 million South vietnamese. As former defense Secretary Harold Brown told the Washington Post there is no contradiction Between collective Security and the desirability of maintaining the United states As the worlds strongest military Power. A take the persian Gulf situation a he said. A that was clearly a collective Security arrangement hut it clearly  have happened if the . Hadnot taken the lion s share by which i mean almost All of the military  although hailed As a new development this strategy is quite similar to one first advocated by then army chief of staff Gen. Creighton w. Abrams almost 20 years ago. While stressing the importance of military forces in a a deterrence of the soviet Union and the Warsaw pact Abrams also emphasized their importance in a a assurances of both our allies and adversaries. For example in providing for japanese and German Security the . Obviated the need for either to rearm. That requirement continues. A we must maintain the mechanisms a says the new guidance a for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global  while the language is harsher the thrust remains the same. It is in our Best interests and in the Best interests of Germany and Japan and the rest of the world As Well to maintain As one a ranking defense official put it a the rather benign environment. We be shaped Over 40  a it wont work a said sen. Joseph r. Biden or. A de ridiculing the strategy As a literally a Pax  but if not a Pax americana then what a Pax Ger Manica a Pax nip Ponica these Are the potential consequences of an american failure to face up to its responsibilities. An earlier failure Cost us a world War and More than a million american casualties. It would seem that this new strategy which reduces defense spending to 3.4 percent of the Gross National product is a bargain indeed. How Long would it endure a entrusting its dream to the armed legions a said Rome a ii manifesto a brings to our minds. The fall of the roman  the comment was meant to be negative but that fall took some 2% years 80 years longer than the United states has been in existence. If the Pax americana could last Only a portion of that time the world would be Well served indeed. A lecturer in strategy and distinguished fellow of the army War College. Retired cot Harry g Summers or a the author of the recently published on strategy ii a critical analysis 0/ the persian quit War c los Angeles Tarnos Syndicate